 We are such forest-trees, and our fair boughs Have bred forth, not pale, solitary doves, But eagles, golden-feather'd, who do tower Above us in their beauty, and must reign In right thereof; for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first...  The Southern Monthly Magazine - Страница 3621864Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1905 - 682 страници
...is acknowledged in the speech of one of the assembled Titans, who reminds his fellows that — ..." 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might." As they, the primeval gods, are an advance on the old blind forces of Chaos whom they dispossessed,... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1905 - 236 страници
...appears, then, that the new principle of being, in whose advent lay the ruin of the old world, is beauty. "'Tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might." [95] This is, as you know, Keats's distinctive mark — the perception and adoration of beauty. What... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1905 - 236 страници
...our fair boughs Have bared forth, not pale solitary doves, But eagles golden-feather'd, who do tower Above us in their beauty, and must reign In right thereof; for 't is the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might: Yea, by that law, another race... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1905 - 84 страници
...of the day of its fulfillment. The beauty now seen afar marks the coming of a new power. For 't is the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might. Love is to him no sad mourner weeping unavailing tears, — it is a great world-power. What he recognizes... | |
 | Samuel McChord Crothers - 1906 - 88 страници
...a prophecy of the day of its fulfilment. The beauty now seen afar marks the coming of a new power. For 'tis the eternal law That first In beauty should be first in might. Love is to him no sad mourner weeping unavailing tears, — it is a great world-power. What 'he recognizes... | |
 | Arnold Isenberg - 1988 - 362 страници
...old Darkness: nor are we Thereby more conquer'd, than by us the rule Of shapeless Chaos . . . . . . for 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might. I should think it a fair paraphrase to say that this asserts a constant and unending progress from... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - 2009 - 784 страници
...branches shelter? Like the forest trees, the Titans have "bred forth . . . eagles goldenfeather'd": 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be...another race may drive Our conquerors to mourn as we do know. Oceanus himself has seen the young god of the sea, his "dispossessor," and been forced to acknowledge... | |
 | Paul A. Cantor - 1984 - 252 страници
...our fair boughs Have bred forth, not pale solitary doves, But eagles golden-feathered, who do tower Above us in their beauty, and must reign In right...law That first in beauty should be first in might. (II.106-19) Oceanus images the increasing degree of freedom reflected in each new heavenly order. He... | |
 | John Barnard - 1987 - 192 страници
...excel us ... (II. 212-14) The Olympians 'tower' above their parents, the Titans, in beauty, and . . . 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should be first in might. Yea, by that law, another race rrfay drive Our conquerors to mourn as we do now. (II. 228-31) The optimistic belief in an evolutionary... | |
 | Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 433 страници
...to excel" them (ll. 212--14). All this his fellow Titans must finally admit, the Sea God concludes, For 'tis the eternal law That first in beauty should...race may drive Our conquerors to mourn as we do now. (11.228-31) This non-Christian, decentered, self-revising, and ever-disruptive action, quite clearly... | |
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